NVidia Announces 'GeForce Grid', Streaming Cloud Service Powered by Kepler GPUs

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NVidia have announced their new 'GeForce Grid' service, which partners with cloud gaming providers Gaikai to deliver what Nvidia are claiming as a mere ten millisecond latency between input/output. Is it viable for Australians? Probably not, but the technology is fascinating, and NVidia are all-systems-go behind it. Upcoming indie mech shooter Hawken is going to be one of the first titles offered on the service, and was demonstrated being played on a server 10 miles away with zero visible lag.

Source: Polygon

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[cyclobs]

wow. a whole 10 miles away!

[a3gis]

sure does show the power of the system! up there with the old Xbox tech demos at cons actually running on PCs. Misleadment!

[PalZer0]

Full cloud gaming is never going to be viable for Australia due to the fact that we're pretty much isolated from the rest of the world.

[Bek]

I wouldn't say never. Technology is amazing.

Having said that I'd personally rather have my own PC doing the work.

[meji]

10 miles? that's like 16 kilometers, Phwooooooaarrrr mister that's swell! Now if I only i live within that range of, well, anything.

Cheek aside, the technology for it does seem quite interesting and in high density areas could be a winner.

[a3gis]

it'll be viable when the hardware and bandwidth are cheap enough/easy enough to manage for them to just bang them into server rooms everywhere

[v4moose]

Full cloud gaming is never going to be viable for Australia due to the fact that we're pretty much isolated from the rest of the world.

until they stick a server in every capital city of australia... then it could be viable for about 15% of australians!

statistic completely made up

[Mekon]

until they stick a server in every capital city of australia... then it could be viable for about 15% of australians!

statistic completely made up

Indeed (re: made up statistic).

Picking the major cites with more than 1M inhabitants in urban areas (aka the important ones):
Sydney + Melbourne + Brisbane + Perth + Adelaide ()
= 3.6M + 3.4M + 1.7M + 1.3M + 1M = 11M
NB: 2006 census

Total population of Australia: 22.9M (2012)
or 19.9M (in 2006) to keep the calculations consistent

So 5 servers (farms) would cover 55% of Australians.

[iambeanie]

until they stick a server in every capital city of australia... then it could be viable for about 15% of australians!

statistic completely made up

Indeed (re: made up statistic).

Picking the major cites with more than 1M inhabitants in urban areas (aka the important ones):
Sydney + Melbourne + Brisbane + Perth + Adelaide ()
= 3.6M + 3.4M + 1.7M + 1.3M + 1M = 11M
NB: 2006 census

Total population of Australia: 22.9M (2012)
or 19.9M (in 2006) to keep the calculations consistent

So 5 servers (farms) would cover 55% of Australians.

Not half bad for just 5 server farms. Have been waiting for something like this to catch on, has been talked about for quite some time in other areas.

[Bluefire]

Be lucky to get one server in syd and maybe one in melb.. why would they care about the rest of the country given low pop ?

[TRB]

ten millisecond latency between input/output

If they're saying it takes 10ms to get calculations done [ie: the time it takes between information in to get information out]then that is very slow.

that doesn't even count network latency.

[exe3]

Cloud gaming won't ever be truly viable (unless you actually live near the server, maybe 10 miles away perhaps? ) unless scientists discover true instantaneous transmission.

[shreddedcheese]

Telstra are supposedly making a cloud gaming service in aus.

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CGMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Faustralian-it%2Fgaming-service-heads-for-cloud%2Fstory-e6frgakx-1226304509328&ei=PlCzT4O1KMesiAe97YTmBw&usg=AFQjCNEb-8DnzEq9fOlFV877MT_REfd2vw

[Aphyosis]

Just for the sake of interest, what do you think will happen to our pings/latency IF the NBN goes as planned and we all wind up with Fiber to the home. I realize that some of the hops will still be pretty substantial, but it's interesting to speculate nonetheless.